Specification of William Taylor : furnaces and boilers of steam engines.

  • Taylor, William.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of William Taylor : furnaces and boilers of steam engines. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Taylors Improvements in Hollers and Apparatus connected therewith. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said William Taylor, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the maimer in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked 5 thereon, that is to say :— My Invention consists, first, in improvements applied to a boiler, for the purpose of applying the water thereto; secondly, in an improvement whereby the deposition of sediment in boilers may be got rid of whilst the boiler is at work; and, thirdly, in improvements applied to the furnace and chimney, 10 whereby I am enabled more perfectly to burn the smoke. I will now proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto annexed, in which is represented a means of carrying each of my said improvements into effect. Description of the Drawing. Fig. 1 represents a longitudinal section of what I call the water supply 15 vessel, it being the vessel into which the water first enters prior to its being admitted into the boiler; this Figure also shews part of the section of a boiler for the purpose of shewing the manner of applying the water supply vessel to a boiler. A is the water supply vessel; B, the boiler; C, the water pipe which descends from the vessel A into the boiler; and it is by this pipe C that the 20 boiler is supplied with water from the vessel A. D is a pipe ascending from the top of the boiler into the vessel A, which pipe is for the purpose of convey¬ ing steam from the boiler to the top or above the surface of the water contained in the vessel A, the purpose of which will hereafter be more particularly described. E is a cock on the pipe C, and F is a cock on the pipe D, which 25 cocks are opened and shut by the handles e and /, in each of which handles there is a slit cut for receiving and permiting to slide a stud fixed on the rod of the float which regulates the quantity of the water supplied to the boiler. G is the float, and II the rod ascending therefrom. I is a pipe by which the water supply vessel is filled, either by means of a pump or from a reservoir, on which 30 pipe I there is a valve M, opening inwards, as shewn in the Drawing. Having now described the various parts represented in this Figure, I will describe the manner of their action; in doing which I will suppose that the water has been forced or flowed into the vessel A, and that that vessel is full; such being the case, when the water line in the boiler becomes lowered the float G will follow, 35 and by means of the rod H will draw down the handles e and / of the cocks E and F placed on the pipes C and D, by which means the steam will be permitted to flow up the pipeD to the top of the vessel A, which will equalize the pressure in the